India’s Renewable Electricity pledges: Faltering and slow progress

In its NDC (Nationally Determined Contribution) submission in October 2015for the UNFCCC Paris Agreement (December 2015) on climate change, the Indian government had pledged that 40% of its

Read more May 8, 2024 at 6:58 pm Soumya Dutta

Perils of banking on fossil fuels

A new report shows that nine major Asian banks, including three of India, are open to doing business in coal – the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. These three banks are State Bank of...

Read more February 7, 2024 at 12:37 pm Jitendra Choubey

এনটিপিসির অন্ধকারাচ্ছন্ন দিক: এনটিপিসির সামাজিক ও পরিবেশগত ‘ফুটপ্রিন্ট’ বিষয়ক একটি সমালোচনা

ন্যাশনাল থার্মাল পাওয়ার কর্পোরেশন (এনটিপিসি) একটি ফরচুন 500 কোম্পানি, ‘নবরত্ন অফ ইন্ডিয়া’ সম্মানে ভূষিত এমন চারটির মধ্যে একটি সংস্থা। এটি, চার দশকেরও বেশি সময় ধরে ভারতের উন্নয়নের অনুসন্ধানে অগ্রণী ভূমিকা পালন করেছে—এই ‘উন্নয়ন মডেল’টির...

Read more June 22, 2022 at 5:05 pm Nishank

New Mineral Amendment Bill (2020)- Who Bears the Cost of Development?

The mining industry in India has constantly been in the spotlight for violations of many kinds, ranging from environmental degradation to labour violations and cases of child labour.

Read more April 20, 2022 at 4:39 pm Nikita Chatterjee

Whither Coal?

The Ministry of Coal (MoC), through a notification on June 18, 2020, officially launched the process of auctioning coal mines, thus opening up the Indian coal mining sector to commercial operations by the private...

Read more April 30, 2021 at 11:29 am Nikhil Varghese Mathew

कोरोना वायरस: ठेका श्रमिकों की बढ़ीं मुश्किलें, ऐसे कर रहे गुजारा

हमारे देश में बिजली पैदा करने का प्रमुख संसाधन कोयला है, पर धरती की छाती चीरकर उसे निकालने वाले मजदूरों की बदहाली जहां-की-तहां है। पिछले साल कोविड-19 के कारण देश भर में लगे ‘लॉकडाउन’...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 3:35 pm Rohit Shivhare

India Tops G20 Governments as Third Largest Supporter of Coal

Press Release | May 27, 2020 New report updates analysis of public financing for energy projects To view or download the full report: http://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020.05.26_Still-Digging-report_final.pdf WASHINGTON, D.C. / New Delhi – A new report released...

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

नेशनल थर्मल पाॅवर काॅरपोरेशन (एनटीपीसी) भारत के चार ‘‘नवरत्नों‘‘ में से एक होने के साथ, एक “फार्च्यून 500” कंपनी भी है। भारत के विकास में एनटीपीसी ने चार दशकों से ऊपर एक अहम् भूमिका...

Read more January 1, 2019 at 1:55 pm Nishank

Special Report: The Dark Side of NTPC

This exclusive report documents the violations caused by the NTPC’s power plants on various fronts over the past decade — forceful land acquisition, environmental damage caused to communities, toxic pollution due to large-scale coal-fired...

Read more October 25, 2018 at 12:17 pm Nishank